Thursday, September 27, 2012

Weekly Blogging Question #1

                                                                                                                                              9-27-12
                                                                           Journal #1

Question-How do primary and secondary sources on the same topic work together to develop your understanding of history?

Answer- Primary and secondary sources on the same topic work well together to develop a better understanding in history. Primary and secondary sources work well together by understanding what was in done in that time period for a example a painted picture that is known as a primary source then a essay that was typed this previous year. Basically just letting a reader understanding something that is bias or what actually happened. An example of a topic that primary and secondary sources work together to develop a better understanding of history is Slavery. A primary and secondary source on slavery work together to develop a better understanding of history by showing an actual time based source which is known as a primary source and then showing them opinions of it so they can have a better sense of it which is a secondary source. Also if you could go on www.tinyurl.com/sept10docs
it shows examples of a painting that say it was a was a war someone try to redo it and it winded up not even looking like the painting. Furthermore, primary and secondary sources on the same topic do work together to develop an better understanding of history espiecally on slavery.